For building up strings out of little pieces, we use fromCharCode
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of polestar11 Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 5:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Fast String concatenation Hi there I wanted to check if there are any tricks one can do to improve the speed on concatenating strings. I know in Java there is a StringBuilder class which is faster than the '+' operator. I havent seen an equivallent for Actionscript, so is var mystring:String = 'string1' + 'string2' the fastest way to concatenate strings? CHeers tracy